Who Designed This Underworld Dungeon?-Chapter 1003 - 659: Spiky Mountain

The Golden Tree stood silently on the earth, bringing healing to wounded lives.

The scene was momentarily filled with a sense of magical beauty, hinting that this place could become an important tourist attraction for Black Stone City, where everyone would want to experience the gentle golden glow.

However, the roar that emerged from Sain Dungeon shattered the tranquility brought by the Golden Tree, casting a tense atmosphere over everyone.

Originally, it was thought that the chaos in Sain Dungeon would end with the defeat of Younka, but from the sound of that roar...

Was there something even bigger yet to come!?

Are we doomed? Are we going to be wiped out by the next invincible monster?!

Yet, as the dragon roar echoed out, the adventurers couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity, especially those who had become dragon warriors.

"Hey, this sound is..."

Gapar, upon hearing the dragon roar from the Sain Dungeon, felt a strikingly familiar sensation.

Indeed, this was heard in the imagery from the Great Dragon Feast Church.

Although the image did not show the dragon that emitted this roar and was even regarded by adventurers as atmosphere-enhancing noise without actual significance,

Gapar had been left with a deep impression, feeling a tremendous, vicious force not found in any other creature.

That had to be the sound of a powerful dragon that once existed.

And by choosing to release this sound, could Sain Dungeon be hinting that such dragons might appear as future adversaries for adventurers?

Considering the nature of this dungeon, Gapar's guess was likely on point.

"But why is the roar happening now?"

As he rapidly fell towards the ground, his face showed no trace of panic, instead, he kept glancing in the direction of Sain Dungeon.

Beside him, Elsa was skillfully navigating the Great Demon Dragon, hacking and slashing with the flair reminiscent of the Investigation Corps tackling giants.

They were using Elo and Hidor as temporary footholds during the battle, propelling themselves back up every time they started to fall because battling without magic couldn't defy gravity.

However, the current situation was...

Elo and Hidor were roaring wildly, their bodies covered in a black substance that had reached a transformative stage after accumulating in mass, now fully engulfing them.

Their mental states, needless to say, were under the black substance's control, raging furiously just like the demon dragons.

The desire in their eyes was like a hunger to devour the world.

This black substance seemed specially effective against the Dragon Clan, while humans suffered no adverse effects, as if just splashed with mud.

"I've lived for so many years, read so many books, and yet I have never encountered anything like this."

Gapar mused to himself, unsure whether Elo and Hidor could be saved, entirely clueless about the black substance.

However, come to think of it, he knew absolutely nothing about these demon dragons either.

He used the sweep of the Great Demon Dragon's tail to jump into the sky, slicing through the asphalt-like shell, exposing swarms of wriggling demon dragons inside.

These demon dragons shared certain characteristics.

Compared to the Dragon Clan of the Warrior Country, these demon dragons were all four-legged, with rougher scales, more developed muscles, longer necks, and an appealing physique that balanced rawness and order.

In a slightly insulting comparison, the four-legged dragons of the Warrior Country seemed like bloated water balloons next to these demon dragons.

"Could it be..." Gapar's eyes flickered, considering a possibility.

"Are these dragons purebred!?"

The Dragon Clan of the Warrior Country, whether two-legged or four-legged, were hybrids, whereas these demon dragons felt suspiciously like legendary purebred dragons!

He suddenly thought of Fudolin, the unfamiliar girl who had just shouted for the dragons to seek refuge in Sain Dungeon, clearly aware of something.

"Could it be she knows something about these dragons?"

At this moment, the dragon heads infected by demon dragon essence suddenly displayed a stress reaction.

The next instant, they surged toward the Sain Dungeon emitting the roar, adopting a dragon car form that could likely smash through any structure, a pure violent strength that even Elsa was inadvertently thrown away.

"I'm going in too."

Gapar plunged his weapon into the Great Demon Dragon's body, riding the hilt as he was taken into the Sain Dungeon with the demon dragons.

He aimed to find Fudolin inside the dungeon.

If his suspicions were correct, most of the Dragon Clan had been brought into the dungeon. If anywhere could accommodate such numbers, it was the Lake Lienia area inside Sain Dungeon.

Once inside the dungeon, he would teleport to Lake Lienia and get answers from the girl.

Gapar thought this to himself.

However, perhaps he was suffering from the bad luck of his daughter, the master of spear technique, with her so-called 'Lucky E.'

When the sensation of teleportation ceased, he found himself not in the standard spawn point like Nimgefo, nor the warmth of the Round Table Hall, but a mysterious place he had never seen before.

No, to be precise, this spooky place was familiar from the imagery of the Great Dragon Feast Church.

"Boom! Boom!"

The rumble of rolling thunder exploded in the dark clouds, red lightning striking down beside him, shattering the ground into a mess.

The entire sky was red, but unlike the crimson sand dunes during the War Festival, the red here all came from one thing—the unceasing red lightning above the sky.

It was the lightning and rolling dark clouds that dyed the sky a dull red!

And beneath the red thunder appeared mountains that stabbed into the sky like spikes!

[Spiky Mountain]!

Almost no vegetation was here, only ground shattered by lightning, and the barren, coarse mountains exuded a chilling sense of menace, not to mention the red lightning striking the surrounding ground every second, preventing any peace of mind.

Gapar rubbed his excellent eyesight and blinked a few times at the scene before him, blurting out:

"Where is this place?"

Where is the blessing? The bonfire?

Why is there nothing here?

How is he supposed to get to Lake Lienia now? He doesn't even know where this Spiky Mountain is or what area it connects to!

He looked up but couldn't see the Golden Tree; could it be that this isn't the Boundary Land?

The clouds in the sky were too thick, coupled with the blinding red thunder; he couldn't see anything clearly, the scene in the distance remained unknown.

"Gah-ooh-ah!"

The Demon Dragons emitted an awful howl, striding towards the highest peak of the mountain range, their rumbling footsteps full of greed and urgency.

It was as if something on the mountaintop was attracting them!

Gapar, steadily hitching a ride without being thrown off, touched his body and felt slightly reassured upon confirming he had a Teleportation Crystal on him.

Since he was here, he decided to see what the Demon Dragons' goal was!

According to the usual nature of the Sain Dungeon, what appeared among the Demon Dragons was likely a powerful existence that could defeat and humiliate them.

Defeating four Legendaries? What level of combat power is that?

In Gapar's mind, the image of the Nameless King emerged, but in the next moment, he shook his head, because he vaguely remembered that the Nameless King seemed to be close to the Dragon Clan.

Forget it; if it's a new strong being, I'll be happier.

He looked at the Demon Dragons, rushing forward, devoid of reason.

In others' eyes, they might be terrifying like Destructive Demon Gods, but in the eyes of Gapar, capable of thinking normally,

These guys were like moths drawn to a scorching flame, rushing towards the source of the fire.

Meanwhile, in Lake Lienia, Academy Gate Town,

The adventurers stationed there were surprised to see a group of giant dragons suddenly appear, discussing animatedly around them; such a scene was indeed rare.

The majority gathered at Academy Gate Town were the two-legged dragons of the Elo lineage, as they frequently entered the Dungeon, opening the way into Lake Lienia.

Many of the four-legged dragons had never entered Sain; once they entered, they might've been sent directly to the Prince's Chapel.

The dragons who fled here hadn't yet grasped the situation, but some had already found Fudolin, demanding she explain what was going on and what was up with those Demon Dragons.

Faced with this unavoidable questioning from the dragons, she didn't hide anything and revealed everything she knew.

"It's a plague, a plague from the original Demon Dragons."

"Original... Demon Dragons?" Neither the dragons nor the people present had heard this name before, but Abel alone reacted.

"This name, my grandpa mentioned it in stories when I was little!"

The ancestors of the Dragon Clan now living in the Warrior Country, their blood relatives were seduced by the Demon King's power and fell, and those fallen dragons were called original Demon Dragons.

In the transformation under the Demon King's power, those Demon Dragons had long become vastly different from the normal Dragon Clan.

With Abel's explanation, people finally understood what the original Demon Dragons were about.

Fudolin's words continued.

"Those Demon Dragons didn't perish with time. Even if some died, their offspring filled the gaps, and the number of the tribe even keeps rising."

"Perhaps due to the connection by blood, when their numbers increase, they begin to affect their blood relatives before they fell, and their descendants. Every few decades, it's a time of plague outbreak."

"That influence magnifies the defects within the giant dragons' hearts. If left to grow, it becomes what you saw earlier, falling into a frenzied state. This is the plague, or rather the truth of the curse."

"The Demon Dragon Plague is never an easy thing to deal with, and this time's plague... the outbreak is particularly severe."

As she spoke, she closed her eyes, her expression somewhat pained.

The people gathered from her narration sensed many issues, like how Fudolin knew these things, and why the original Demon Dragon Plague hadn't affected the current Dragon Clan of the Warrior Country before, and...

But before they could ask, Fudolin opened her eyes and said:

"There are only two ways to cure the plague: satisfy their desires escalated to distortion by the plague, or..."

She clenched her fist.

"Beat the infected ones until they can't stand again!"